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| Maintenance Update for April 30th: Online Battledrome League Play is here! Plus bug fixes (see bottom of post for details on bug fixes).
Hello Chaotic® Beta Community!  We are very pleased to announce that the New Client has been updated in order to start the first Season of the Battledrome Leagues (with online Prize support)!
The first Battledrome Season launches at 12:00 AM (Pacific Time) on May 1st, 2009 and runs all the way until the end of the day on May 31st, 2009! The next Battledrome season will start in June and run until the end of the month, with the following seasons running monthly as well.
For this first season, the two Battledromes eligible for ranked League play are the Hotekk Drome and the Imthor Drome. The Beta Drome and the Classic Client will not be eligible for Online League play. There will be certain cards disabled in each Drome for ranked play. This is to prevent bugged cards from interfering with official ranked games. The list of current disabled cards for each Drome can be found at the end of this post.
Hotekk Drome
The Hotekk Drome is one of the first Battledromes and games are always played with 3v3 Armies and Advanced Apprentice Rules.- Games played within the Hotekk Drome only affect a player’s Hotekk Drome ELO rating for that Season.
- Games played within the Hotekk Drome never affect a player’s Lifetime ELO.
Imthor Drome
The Imthor Drome is the International Battledrome and currently supports only 3v3 Apprentice matches.
- The Imthor Drome only allows cards to be played that are included in the International Card Set. The International Card Set will include all cards up until the latest card release in international markets. Initially this will just be Dawn of Perim, but additional booster sets will be added as they are released internationally.
- Games played within the Imthor Drome currently only affect a player’s Imthor Drome ELO rating for the current Season.
With the launch of the Battledrome League Seasons comes Online Prize support! The Online Prizes work as follows:
- Participation Card – Every month a new exclusive Participation card will be available to earn that month. These cards will be online only cards and not able to be acquired anywhere else! Once the month has passed, you will not be able to earn these cards again!
- Prize Card – Every month a new exclusive Prize card will be available to win that month. These cards will be online only cards and not able to be acquired anywhere else! Once the month has passed, you will not be able to win these cards again!
Each player has the opportunity to earn a maximum of 1 Participation Card each month by playing at least 20 games that month in any of the Battledromes (including the Beta Drome, game count can be a mix of any of the Dromes.)
Players will win additional cards based on how they perform in the Prized Battledromes (Hotekk, Imthor, Oron, and Crellan) during each Season. Players must play at least 20 games in a particular Battledrome to be eligible for the prizes listed below.
Battledrome Prizes:
- Top 10 Players: Random Ultra Rare card
- Top 20% of Players: Monthly Prize Card (Includes the Top 10 Players)
- Top 21-40% of Players: Random Super Rare card
- Top 41-70% of Players: Random Rare card
- Bottom 30% of Players: Random Common or Uncommon card
Since prizes are awarded for each Battledrome’s final standings, players are eligible for prizes in all Prized Battledromes in which they complete 20 games! So for example, if you were to earn first place in all 4 of the Prized Battledromes and satisfied the 20 game minimum in each, you would receive: 4 Random Ultra Rares, 4 of the Monthly Prize Card, and 1 Participation Card!
Drome ratings will begin midnight May 1st with the start of the first Battledrome season. Lifetime rating WILL be reset one more time. This will happen once Chaotic goes out of the Beta phase, which is on the way sooner than you may think! When Lifetime ratings are reset, each player will be reset to 1500, and your Beta ratings will be preserved in a “Hall of Fame". We will give you more details as the End of Beta draws closer.
Other than the Battledrome Season launch, the latest version of the New Chaotic Client (Version 1.1020) contains a few significant bug fixes as well, which are detailed below:
- Mirage Location bug: Sometimes, in the New Client, when a Mirage Location would come into play, errors would happen in the game. This has been fixed.
- Invalid Movement bug: In the New Client, bugs would sometimes happen when movement was put into play. The Client now validates movement selection twice before it goes through. This is a back-end fix, so you won't notice any slowdown or extra time from the double validation. You will, however, notice improved stabilty in regards to movement.
- Creature Selection bug: In the New Client, Invalid Creature choices would sometimes cause errors that would cause the game to pause, or even end. This has been fixed. If a Creature choice is Invalid, the game will not let you choose the Invalid Creature, but will no longer crash or end because of this.
- Location Monitor bug: In the New Client, the "TV monitors" in the background that show the current Location would sometimes cause an Object Reference error. This error would sometimes kick players out of a game with no warning. This error has been fixed.
These latest bug fixes should greatly improve the stability of New Client games just in time for the launch of the first Battledrome Season!
We hope you enjoy the new Battledrome League Seasons, as well as the bug fixes and other recent updates, such as Chaotic Coins and Lobby Chat. As always, more updates and bug fixes are on the way, so stay tuned to the Announcements and News section for more details!
Now.. prepare yourself for exciting Online League battles! The first Battledrome Season is here!! 
The following are the current disabled cards for the Hotekk and Imthor Dromes. The Battledromes forum will be continuously updated as the ban list changes.
Hotekk Drome - Disabled Card List
Dawn of Perim- Squeeze Play
- Orb of Foresight
Zenith of the Hive
Silent Sands- Saand
- Iparu Jungle
- Twister of Elements
- Mipedim Lounge
M'arrillian Invasion- Ulmar's Projector
- Maliph, Guard of the Palace
- Mount Pillar, Neth'aur's Foothold
Rise of the Oligarch
Turn of the Tide
Imthor Drome
Current Imthor Drome Legal Sets:- Dawn of Perim
- OP and Promotional Cards
Imthor Disabled Cards:- Squeeze Play
- Orb of Foresight
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